The backdrop is a world of Wolseley police cars and the fashion of Jacques Fath; Rowntree's chocolates and the Comet jetliner; Imperial typewriters and Roger Vivier shoes.
In a caper stretching from Yorkshire, Somerset and Kent to the Pakistan port city of Karachi, follow the actions of Detective Inspector Ray Stafford and wool baron's wife Jennifer Shaw. Just two of the lives that cross as a consequence of the vicious killing of Moira Nelson on a creepy, windswept moor.